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Supreme Court of Queensland Act 1991
sec.83Facilities for private communication
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### sec.83 Facilities for private communication
The Supreme Court and the correctional institution must make facilities available for private communication between the detainee and the detainee’s representative in a proceeding if the representative is at the place where the court is sitting.
A communication between the detainee and the detainee’s representative is as confidential and as inadmissible in any proceeding as it would be if it took place while the detainee and the detainee’s representative were in each other’s presence.
Subsection (2) does not limit any other protection applying to the communication.
s 83 orig s 83 om 1997 No. 38 s 132
prev s 83 ins 1998 No. 20 s 17
amd 1999 No. 66 s 37
om 2011 No. 45 s 195
pres s 83 ins 1996 No. 4 s 4
(sec.83-ssec.1) The Supreme Court and the correctional institution must make facilities available for private communication between the detainee and the detainee’s representative in a proceeding if the representative is at the place where the court is sitting.
(sec.83-ssec.2) A communication between the detainee and the detainee’s representative is as confidential and as inadmissible in any proceeding as it would be if it took place while the detainee and the detainee’s representative were in each other’s presence.
(sec.83-ssec.3) Subsection (2) does not limit any other protection applying to the communication.